Motorhome Westward Ho!

We left Florida, Nature Coast Landings on April 12 at 9am. We had spent four wonderful days with the girls and the grandchildren over on the East Coast of Florida, even got to see a Shuttle launch pre-dawn, it was beautiful. Hard to say good-bye to the family, but hopefully will see them out west at some point for a vacation with us.
We are heading up to hubby's Uncle Frank's house for a visit. They have a beautiful place in the country of Alabama sitting up on a hill and looking down over the rolling country. We love staying there so quiet and peaceful.
We arrive at Frank's the early evening of the 12th, to find out we are going shopping to go out on his boat tomorrow. Yeepee,,,,I am going to get me a Tan yet. After getting the drinks, sandwich makings, snacks, ice and anything else we can think of we are now ready to head out in the am.
We have a wonderful and beautiful day out on the huge lake not far from Frank's house. The men are fishing and I am getting a tan, nice and warm sunny day. We stayed out on the lake till 5pm. Yep I got me a tan!
Boy we were all exhausted when we got home and unpacked the boat, but a great time had by all. The men are going out again tomorrow, but the women have decided we will just go do some shopping.
After two wonderful days with Frank and Colleen we leave and head towards the north, we are making our way to Missouri, but we have no idea as to how long it will take us to get there, we are just going to take our time and enjoy the trip. Well after driving, stopping and fueling both the rig and our bellies, we are making really good time, taking some differant roads than we have taken before and some we have drove but we like. We arrive at Sikeston Missouri, home of "Lambert's" which is home to the "Thrown Rolls". We have stopped for two days to visit with our friends Jim and Nelda here at the park where they are working for the next six months. We had such a good visit, and we never went to Lambert's this trip through Sikeston. Just too many other things to do this time around.
On Sat April 17 we say good-bye to to Jim and Nelda and start heading west towards Springfield Missouri. We hated to say goodbye to our friends but hope to see them again soon than not. We make very good time once again traveling, it is Saturday so no need to worry about rush hour traffic around the bigger cities. We drive and drive stopping to get a bite to eat, and fuel up, get out and walk around some and get back on the road. By the time night was upon us we have made it to Council Bluffs Iowa. Spending the night at a casino parking lot and never went inside the casino, just made some dinner, showered and hit the sack.
It is now Sunday am April 18 and we are on the road bright and early heading to the north. After awhile we decide to get off the beaten path and take a secondary road to see the country side. We have made such good time we have the time to allow us to now just take our time. Nice rolling hills, alot of cattle country, small towns, we are driving up and across Nebraska. Finally after a few hours we both decide that ok, this is enough and change our plans again, and head north on what we find out is a road that runs from up in Canada to Mexico City. Did not know that there was such a road. We stop at a rest area that is just south of Yankton S.D. but we have not crossed over the river and we are still in Neb. Looking out across a large flat farming area for miles and miles.
Well we are on a roll again, and continue driving, we head up to interstate #90 and start heading west. We drive and drive and stop at the town the has the "Corn Palace" well us being us, we looked at each other, drive by take a few snaps of pictures and keep on rolling. Back out to the highway, and westward rolling we go. We finally after another long day of driving arrive at the Badlands National Park. I have said for awhile that I so wanted to spend the night in the Badlands and now we are here and going to do it. We drive into the campground and we have almost got the entire campground to ourselves. There are no hookups but we can run the generator at certain hours. Wow this is so beautiful, I am on cloud nine right now.
We awake up in the am to the birds singing so loudly, what a nice alarm clock. We get up and head out to see the sights and take some pictures and maybe get some hiking in as well.
We get back in the evening and make us a bite to eat and then decide to head out again, there is a storm coming but we do not think it is going to get us, wrong,,,,after getting out to go hike, it starts raining. We got back in the truck, and that quick it stopped and so we just went to another spot and finally did get in one last hike before having to depart in the am.
We hate to say good-bye to the Badlands but it is time to move on, we have lots to do in Rapid City. We make it to Rapid in an hour, and head to our campsite, but first we have to go and get the truck and motorhome washed. We came across some major road construction that, well lets just say, we were really dirty.
I start making some phone calls to our friends in Rapid City, to start getting our visits with everyone lined up. Looks like we will be having a busy week, and will be eating out alot. After getting the rig unhooked and set up, we take off like two little kids to Deadwoon one of our favorite playgrounds. We have a good time, won some lost some. Had a good dinner, and a long day so time to call it a day finally and get a good nights sleep.
We have lunch dates, breakfasts dates, dinner dates for the next four days. We take time to go visit our old job site, Bear Country USA. Got to see the new little baby Bears. Oh they are so cute, forget how small and how big they can be. But they are so cute, gotta love them. We had such a wonderful time working there, and made so many friends, and have so many good memories.
We have had a busy week, and it is sad but time has come to say good-bye and move on. It is so sad, and we hate to say good bye to all of our family and friends across, it seems the US at this point. But we have to now think about the new job, and we need to head in that direction now. The fun, and vacation is over for awhile.
We arrive at our new home base. A small campground and rv park, GreenCreek Inn and Rv Park. We will be located 20miles west of Cody Wy and 28 miles east of the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. The park sits in a valley with mountains on both sides, we are in the high desert. We can see snow up on the mountains, we have the Buffalo Bill dam and lake ten miles east of us, on the way to Cody. We are in the area called Wapiti, Indian name for Elk. There are a number of them down here in the valley grazing now, along with many many mule deer. We will now be here at our new home for the next few months. We are hoping to have a wonderful summer here and visiting as much as we can possibly see. Think the truck is going to have a lot of miles on it by the time we leave here.